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Mandi See
Amanda Jane See (Mandi) was born on 2nd March 1988. Is currently a model with a past acting and musical career and was a very successful well known local child acrtess. Recently she has been working on her modelling career and hopes to start college as a fashion jounralist. She has appeared in several very popular shows in the area of Worcestershire and many more out and around. She organised her own very popular concert for her terminally ill father and raised money for charity doing so.

Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Celebrity 1.4 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

[edit] Early life Mandi was born in Worcester, Worcestershire, England to Peter See and Margaret See, company directors of a local computer business. She has an elder sister, Emma who was born in 1984. Mandi lived most of her life on the outscirts of Evesham, attending Evesham School and Worcester College. Mandi achieved good grades in school which pleased her parents, and was thus permitted to join any theatre froup of her choice. Through out school Mandi had singing and acting lessons. She took music and Drama as two of her GSCE options. At a young age Mandi teamed up with some local sining youngsters and formed a girl group called 'Candy' later that year changed to 'Free Spirit' when they became more popular in the area. They did a few concerts and a lot of charity events. Mandi has noted that she was "single-minded about perfoming" during her childhood.[3] She performed in a number of local amateur productions including After several school plays.

Career Mandi began dancing at the age of two when her parents enrolled her in the Jaqueline school of dance. She took ballet, tap, stage, modern and character for many years, performing on stage as a dancer. Later she found her voice and began taking singing lessons at the age of ten, finally at 13 she won her first award 'musician of the year 2001'. Mandi peroformed with local theatrical groups but never joined as she was always doing so much she felt she was unreliable. At highschool Mandi began to take drama very seriously, choosing the subject as a GCSE option and getting a high grade. She has written seveal of her own plays and many transcripts. Some have actually been performed. She took a great liking to all the aspects of the theatre, acting, script writing, designing and directing. After school she went to Performing arts college is Worcester amd studied her trade further. It wasn't until mandi turned eighteen that modelling became appealing even though she had dabbled in the past with humble photo shoots here and there. When she first began modelling she was a very popular knew face and photographers were coming from 50miles away and more just to work with her, she was quoted to say 'Modelling great, the money can be good but it doesn't last, to be honest I'd rather have a good picture'. Working in many different styles including artistic nude and alternative made mandi stand out from the crowd. She blossomed quickly infront of the camera and everyone agreed she had a great talent for posing. something she laughs at.

[edit] Personal life Mandi, who currently lives in Southampton, is dating Worcestershire boy, David Phillips. Mandi says they have a fantastic relationship and she has never felt so close to another person. Mandi has also stated that she feels uncomfortable dressing up and that she prefers British men over any other nationality, because she feels that British men are less concerned about their own appearance. quoted ' I like goodlooking men, but not pretty boys, I like a man to look like a man'.

In 2006 Mandi was diagnosed with a disease named 'Ulcerative Colitus' This is a bowel disease causing her to dramatically fluctuate in weight. In August of 2006, Mandi's father past away and she noted that she believes that she had become a workaholic, detailing that "the last year I have worked every night, it's like one really long exhausting day' and specifying that she is "working too much"[22] and decided to take a break a few months before moving to Southampton.

[edit] Performances on film and stage

Alice in Wonderland 1993 The Naughty Daughter 1995 Jack and the Beanstalk 1995 Dick Whittington  1997 Children in Concert 2000 Kids for Charity        2000 Kids for Charity 2     2000 Evesham in Bloom Awards  2000 By Royal Command 2000 Carousel                    2000 Carlton Television Workshop 2000 Free Spirit Concerts  1999 – 2001 Evening of Music and Dance 2001 Easter Review          2001 Festival of Language 2001 A summer Concert    2001 Beetleheart                 2001 The Young Musician of the year 1999 – 2001 God Spell                  2004 All That Jazz             2005 St Richards Hospice 2006